The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-643-1 chicken security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7715 The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:43:38.181Z

Reserved: 2016-08-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6830

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.457

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-6830

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